''Vassa Zheleznova'' is a play by Russian writer
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...
. He wrote and published the play in 1910. It was not performed until 1936 after Gorky wrote a new version in 1935.
The play was the basis of several films in the Soviet Union, e.g. the 1953
film of the same name, and in France and Germany.
See also
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'' (1906)
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First version
1910 plays
1936 plays
Plays by Maxim Gorky
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